https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47988
Bug #: 47988
Summary: FILESAVE: Feature request : better visibility and
access to automatical backups and enabled by default
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: LibO 3.3.0 release
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Status Whiteboard: BSA
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
ReportedBy: be.nicolas.mic...@gmail.com
Problem description:
Currently, the automatic save with copy of documents is not enabled by default.
The option will be enabled only by advanced user since normal end users only
open libreoffice et start typing without even think that such a feature does
exists.
But think about it : how many people do you personnaly know that lost their
document after a crash or a bad manipulation? I do know some and most of the
time it is critical documents.
But enable the feature is not sufficient : it would also be nice having the
possibility to browser the content of automatic saved documents from
libreoffice GUI.
Finally and probably the most important : currently the automatic save feature
is only enabled for already saved document (once you clicked on file/save). But
if you start typing without saving anything and the computer crash, there's no
way to recover the document. I know users SHOULD always save their document
before starting typing and I ALWAYS say it. But ususal end users don't think
about that. They just want to start typing their document. Of course, there
should be some rotation and keep only some pre-defined unnamed documents (say
10?) and that value can be changed in the libreoffice configuration.
Steps to reproduce:
1. ....
2. ....
3. ....
Current behavior:
* Automatic save copy is not enabled by default
* When enabled, need to grab the path of the automatic save copy from the
libreoffice configuration menu and walking there with a file explorer (needing
to modify display options (either on Linux than on Windows) to show hidden
files to see the directory : really out of scope for a usual end user)
* Never enabled for unsaved documents
Expected behavior:
GENERAL PURPOSE : minimize the risk of loosing a document either caused by a
computer crash (except hard disk failure) or a bad manipulation from the end
user (eg : close an unsaved document by misunderstanding or by mistake)
Actions to achieve it:
* automatic save copy enabled by default (but be able to disabled it from the
option menu for the ones who want it)
* default delay should not be 10 min but maximum 5 min (I always configure this
to 1 min on my computers)
* also backup unsaved documents and keep a pre-defined number of them
* being able to walk through a "history" or something like a "time-machine"
concept from the libreoffice GUI and see all automatic saved documents, sorted
by date, and maybe see a thumbnail for each to easilly recognize unnamed
documents?
Platform (if different from the browser):
ALL
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0;
SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center
PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
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